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I have long been intrigued by the German Flak Towers that were built for the second world war. I have never really gone out of my way to research them but have only ever seen snippets about them. There never seems to be any great detail.
I understand that once Berlin was taken, even with no resistance, these towers proved all but indestructible.
I can understand the German people not wishing for them to stay after the war but it is a shame one was not left standing, as it was. I would certainly pay to have a tour around one.

Anyway, I came across this video by accident which gives some views I have never seen before - If you can ignore the Quad-copter crashing story. I hope you enjoy and would be interested if you posted other information regards the towers,

DM

There are a great many flak towers still standing in Germany and Austria, Hamburg and Vienna have some very large ones.Because they were so hard to demolish a lot of them had their facades altered so as not to resemble flak towers.One houses a tropical aquarium complex now.Below is a pic of a flak tower in Berlin, very close to the railway station.
This is a large flak tower in Hamburg

Do you know if any are open as museums?

That one in Hamburg is massive!

DM

Dangermouse wrote:Do you know if any are open as museums?

That one in Hamburg is massive!

DM

Not sure if any are museum's, a Google search may be your best bet

Very interesting, I was not really aware of the FPV systems and I can see just how useful they could be on occasions. Imagine an aerial view of your range or even the local woods, I am sure they could reveal many things such as parch marks and old land marks, plus the occasional nekid lady tongueout

Berlin flak tower seems open:

http://www.historvius.com/the-berlin-flak-tower-472/

http://theelephantgate.weebly.com/the-w ... e-zoo.html


More pictures of flack towers. Scroll past the flack tower pics to a photograph of a flying fortress losing part of its tail plane to bombs from aircraft above; I wonder if they made it home.

Salut ,

I also like German concret and FlakTurn must probably be the most fascinating & exciting places of all
Only few survived intact im Deutschland as the post-war program of German demilitarisation called for their destruction. As far I know, most of the ones in Vienna were left intact as well as couple of them in Hamburg. The Berlin's towers were all destroyed at some degree . The one pictured on your photo has actually been partially blown up and then buried in a mountain of rubbles cleared by the Berlin women from the citi's destruction.
You can visit it . http://berliner-unterwelten.de/web-page ... 168.1.html
Berlin-Unterwelten is an absolute must for anybody into subterranean structures.

Berlin and the greater Berlin is an absolute gold mine . In addition to the flakturn, you can also see a couple of air-shelters in Berlin, very similar to FlakTurn but under the control of the Luftschutz so obviously not military structure but very exciting nevertheless. One of them was a great indie club in the early 90's but unfortunatly has now been converted in an art gallerie.

DOGGER2UK wrote:http://theelephantgate.weebly.com/the-w ... e-zoo.html


More pictures of flack towers. Scroll past the flack tower pics to a photograph of a flying fortress losing part of its tail plane to bombs from aircraft above; I wonder if they made it home.

Unlikely unfortunately

Awesome photos. Was that not the B17 that got hit by bombs from the plane above? It went down big time.